How does this allow a specific minority to elect officials? It sounds like MULTIPLE minorities benefitted from this.
And, what's wrong with minorities electing officials to represent their share of the population? Arguably, that's more fair, and the point of this move.
What it looks like to me is that, under the old system, there was one candidate being elected at a time. So, 25% of the people wanted a Hispanic in office, apparently, but everyone else didn't.
Under the new system, all six candidates get elected at a time. Those 25% of the people now got their wishes heard, because everyone was running against everyone, and not some crap like being pre-assigned a seat, and having to fight for that seat (at least that's how things work here in Ohio, if there's multiple seats in the same position up for grabs, things might work differently there) - and, if someone didn't mind the hispanic guy, they could say that, even if they were really voting for someone else.
You get six votes. You DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO with them. Don't use them at all. Give all six to one candidate. Give them to six different candidates. Any other distribution of those six votes among less candidates. Your choice.
Either way, your voice gets heard equally, no matter who you are. It's just that you can weakly say you prefer all of these candidates, or strongly say you prefer one candidate, or moderately say you prefer a smaller group of candidates.
Electoral college wasn't intended for the top-heavy government we have today - it was intended for the pre-Lincoln weak central, strong state governments. And the people weren't SUPPOSED to elect the President or Senators - the people got to elect the House of Representatives - that was for the state governments themselves.
They're some of the last fragments of the way the US was supposed to work, before Lincoln screwed it all up with his ham-fisted approach to ending slavery, that ended up giving colossal power to the federal government.
The states were supposed to have all the power, and to have that, you need your own governmental system.
That's also why there's the electoral college - it's counterproductive in a federal-centric system, but it makes sense in a state-centric system. And the US Senate - which should be elected by the governments of the states, IIRC, NOT the people - that was an attempt to prevent mob rule, and represent the states themselves in US government - the House of Representatives was intended to represent the people.
Obviously it doesn't apply in this case, as it's non-GPL, and it's a fork of another tool, but if TACO were originally written as a GPL program, not a fork of some other tool, and rights to all code submitted stayed with the TACO development team (or external contributions weren't accepted, or weren't made in the first place,) it's possible that when the development team was bought out, they'd have the right to release future versions under a non-GPL license. Look at what happened with XFree86.
Because they're not targeting a device, they're targeting users who own the device. And those users are stuck in 2 year contracts that make it hard to switch platforms.
Even if you are on a licensed frequency, unless that frequency is a cellular telephone frequency, it's not even illegal to sniff those signals, just illegal to transmit on them unless you're in distress or authorized by the licensee and/or the FCC to transmit on it.
Diesel is common, here, too - it's just that most vehicles - even counting diesel pickups, delivery trucks, school buses, and semi trucks - do run on gasoline.
One thing with all of these... they all support a much more flexible device driver system. BIOS device drivers are a nightmare to deal with nowadays, whereas OF and EFI can run halfway decent drivers - the ultimate goal being, you can just install a driver for an "EFI-compatible graphics card," and whenever you upgrade your graphics card, EFI calls take care of everything.
Oh, and both EFI and OF are CPU architecture-independent in theory (and, EFI is architecture-independent in practice - the same card, with the same drivers, IIRC, will work in Itanium or x86, but a card that works in an OF Mac may not work in an OB Sun SPARC system, due to drastically different underlying system architectures.)
For a couple years now, Acer's been using Insyde's BIOS, which is an EFI implementation that hides all of the EFI stuff, and puts a PhoenixBIOS-like configuration app and a BIOS emulator on top of EFI.
So, it's certainly practical for real-world systems.
What's sad is, the most open OS on a smartphone you can buy from a carrier today (nobody buys unlocked GSM phones in the US, so the N900 is out,) from the user perspective, anyway, is WINDOWS FREAKING MOBILE 6.5.3.
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OK, then don't call it six votes.
You get one vote, and can divide it six ways.
One person, one vote. Applied six different ways, yes, but it's still one person, one vote.
How does this allow a specific minority to elect officials? It sounds like MULTIPLE minorities benefitted from this.
And, what's wrong with minorities electing officials to represent their share of the population? Arguably, that's more fair, and the point of this move.
No, looks like everyone gets six votes.
What it looks like to me is that, under the old system, there was one candidate being elected at a time. So, 25% of the people wanted a Hispanic in office, apparently, but everyone else didn't.
Under the new system, all six candidates get elected at a time. Those 25% of the people now got their wishes heard, because everyone was running against everyone, and not some crap like being pre-assigned a seat, and having to fight for that seat (at least that's how things work here in Ohio, if there's multiple seats in the same position up for grabs, things might work differently there) - and, if someone didn't mind the hispanic guy, they could say that, even if they were really voting for someone else.
Um, what?
Where's the -1, Wrong mod when you need it?
You get six votes. You DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO with them. Don't use them at all. Give all six to one candidate. Give them to six different candidates. Any other distribution of those six votes among less candidates. Your choice.
Either way, your voice gets heard equally, no matter who you are. It's just that you can weakly say you prefer all of these candidates, or strongly say you prefer one candidate, or moderately say you prefer a smaller group of candidates.
Electoral college wasn't intended for the top-heavy government we have today - it was intended for the pre-Lincoln weak central, strong state governments. And the people weren't SUPPOSED to elect the President or Senators - the people got to elect the House of Representatives - that was for the state governments themselves.
No, don't get rid of the state legislatures.
They're some of the last fragments of the way the US was supposed to work, before Lincoln screwed it all up with his ham-fisted approach to ending slavery, that ended up giving colossal power to the federal government.
The states were supposed to have all the power, and to have that, you need your own governmental system.
That's also why there's the electoral college - it's counterproductive in a federal-centric system, but it makes sense in a state-centric system. And the US Senate - which should be elected by the governments of the states, IIRC, NOT the people - that was an attempt to prevent mob rule, and represent the states themselves in US government - the House of Representatives was intended to represent the people.
Obviously it doesn't apply in this case, as it's non-GPL, and it's a fork of another tool, but if TACO were originally written as a GPL program, not a fork of some other tool, and rights to all code submitted stayed with the TACO development team (or external contributions weren't accepted, or weren't made in the first place,) it's possible that when the development team was bought out, they'd have the right to release future versions under a non-GPL license. Look at what happened with XFree86.
Uploading, sue for treble damages, per upload, as well... if you prove each and every unique upload.
Negative: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=35641&code=atom+330
As for 64-bit, they may well have gotten custom Z530s that can do 64-bit - make a large enough order, and Intel will do custom stuff.
Which is actually why a pair of the appropriate safety goggles is included in the price of the laser.
This wasn't commit rights.
This was attacking the mirrors.
You can do the same exact thing to closed source software, by infecting the binary with a malware installer.
Because they're not targeting a device, they're targeting users who own the device. And those users are stuck in 2 year contracts that make it hard to switch platforms.
I suspect the solution is to not require laptops, and structure homework so that a home computer isn't absolutely necessary?
Then, students don't need laptops, and the system doesn't need funds to put one in the student's hands.
Even if you are on a licensed frequency, unless that frequency is a cellular telephone frequency, it's not even illegal to sniff those signals, just illegal to transmit on them unless you're in distress or authorized by the licensee and/or the FCC to transmit on it.
Apple is collecting that data, and they are allowing ad providers that aren't affiliated with a phone OS or hardware provider to collect that data.
It's just AdMob that's affected, really.
The Apple II version of Contiki does things in a way that's simultaneously very smart and absolutely fucktarded.
Because it doesn't support CSS or anything fancy, it grabs the page, and anything that it knows won't display, it discards.
To display more of the page, it makes another round trip to grab the page again.
Aaaaaaactually... Firefox was originally ported to RISC OS 5 years ago.
http://www.riscos.info/index.php/Mozilla_Firefox
IIRC, there's issues with GTK2 preventing a Firefox 3.x port from being usable, but there is Firefox for "Acorn OS."
Diesel is common, here, too - it's just that most vehicles - even counting diesel pickups, delivery trucks, school buses, and semi trucks - do run on gasoline.
A proper EFI implementation will have a command line, as well.
Symbian doesn't give you root, though, as I understand, and apps have to be signed to get root permissions.
Palm OS was the same, but Palm OS is completely dead.
WebOS isn't far off, Palm doesn't make the password to install unsigned apps and get root hard to find.
We're talking about North America, a typical vehicle gets 300 miles on a tank of gas. And 0 miles on a tank of diesel.
OpenFirmware (or OpenBoot) is fairly extensible.
One thing with all of these... they all support a much more flexible device driver system. BIOS device drivers are a nightmare to deal with nowadays, whereas OF and EFI can run halfway decent drivers - the ultimate goal being, you can just install a driver for an "EFI-compatible graphics card," and whenever you upgrade your graphics card, EFI calls take care of everything.
Oh, and both EFI and OF are CPU architecture-independent in theory (and, EFI is architecture-independent in practice - the same card, with the same drivers, IIRC, will work in Itanium or x86, but a card that works in an OF Mac may not work in an OB Sun SPARC system, due to drastically different underlying system architectures.)
For a couple years now, Acer's been using Insyde's BIOS, which is an EFI implementation that hides all of the EFI stuff, and puts a PhoenixBIOS-like configuration app and a BIOS emulator on top of EFI.
So, it's certainly practical for real-world systems.
Well, you can boycott them.
100% biodiesel.
(Of course, the most that you can buy at a pump, here in Ohio, is 20%, and the closest station that sells B20 is a BP station.
As for ethanol, so much petroleum is used in its creation that you might as well just be getting gasoline.)
What's sad is, the most open OS on a smartphone you can buy from a carrier today (nobody buys unlocked GSM phones in the US, so the N900 is out,) from the user perspective, anyway, is WINDOWS FREAKING MOBILE 6.5.3.
Out of the box, you have root.